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"I suppose people attribute the more coercive and economically less helpful policies to Xi personally but associate more positive elements, such as technological advances, to China more broadly."

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to carelessness or incompetence.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026

Plenty of members of bookish communities attribute it to plain old greed, but there’s also something more: influencer brain.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

CoinEx said it didn’t observe the same increase in the size of transactions and that it wasn’t possible to attribute the activity to government or state-sanctioned actors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Scientists attribute the significantly larger population in the Americas to a relatively disease-free society whose use of herbal medicine, surgery, dentistry, and hygienic and ritual bathing kept disease at bay.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

He attributes much of their success to the relative scarcity of cheap capital compared to the U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

Voters, he said, don’t dissect candidates’ identities and attributes the way political professionals do.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

His middle name is an ode to Huckleberry Finn — sharp wit, kind heart, strong moral compass — all the attributes he’s imparted on us in spirit,” said Saleh, 45.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

The Swiss has played in a variety of roles for club and country in the middle of the park, but he has the attributes to potentially excel as a box-to-box midfielder.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Many times the primary author does not have enough insider knowledge of the language, and has to rely on someone with that knowledge to help with song lyrics and other cultural attributes.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Scientists had previously attributed Alzheimer's related sleep loss mainly to damaged neurons or the physical presence of amyloid plaques.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

Throughout all three hours of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” — the acclaimed writer-director’s take on the ancient Greek epic attributed to Homer — I repeatedly returned to one question.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

In Bank of America’s earnings press release Moynihan attributed improving profit margins in part to “disciplined expense management.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

They attributed the decline to UC dropping the tests six years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

At this point, I still attributed much of my progression and success to my years working with Akhi, but I was disappointed by how disconnected we had become.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

After heat-related deaths reached a peak of 645 in 2023, they declined to 405 in 2025 - with many experts attributing part of the decline to the policy changes.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

The company has outlined a near-term total addressable market of $5.7 trillion, attributing just $370 billion to space-enabled solutions.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

Chopra responded, “Nothing human is foreign to me,” attributing that to a “Roman poet whose name I forget.”

From Salon ● May 19, 2026

On Monday, Rana refiled the lawsuit in New York state court, with his lawyer attributing the weeklong takedown to a clerical error.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

However, a veterinarian in Bainbridge, Georgia, Dr. Otis L. Poitevint, who was called upon to treat many of the affected animals, has summarized his reasons for attributing the deaths to the insecticide as follows.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson